Left-wing Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, known as AMLO, was sworn in as Mexico’s new president Saturday.
The 65-year-old progressive politician is tasked with striking equilibrium in a country battling drug trafficking and organized crime with unprecedented levels of corruption and high levels of poverty.
AMLO has proposed a reduction in systemic violence through a change in the war-on-drugs policy, ending and sanctioning corruption as a grave crime, strengthening Mexico's ties with Latin America, and a reversal of privatizations and austerity against the people.